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Halley's Comet is a comet that can be seen from Earth roughly every 75 to 76 years as it passes through our part of the solar system. It matters because its regular, predictable returns have made it one of the most famous and historically significant comets, allowing people across generations to witness the same cosmic visitor.
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- Instance of
- near-Earth object
- Named after
- Edmond Halley
- Parent body
- Sun
- Child body
- Eta Aquariids
- Diameter
- 11
- Mass
- 220
- Orbital period
- 27728.04608790421
- Image
- Lspn comet halley.jpg
- Significant event
- flyby
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- Commons category
- Comet Halley
- topic's main category
- Category:Halley's Comet
- discoverer or inventor
- Edmond Halley
- albedo
- 0.04
- density
- 850
- different from
- Halley
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
- provisional designation
- 1910 II
- absolute magnitude
- 5.5
- time of discovery or invention
- 1758-12-25
- site of astronomical discovery
- Ancient Greece
- orbital eccentricity
- 0.9679359956953211
- semi-major axis of an orbit
- 17.92863504856923
- periapsis
- 0.5748638313743413
- apoapsis
- 35.28240626576412
- orbital inclination
- 162.1905300439129
- longitude of ascending node
- 59.09894720612437
- argument of periapsis
- 112.2414314637764
- mean anomaly
- 274.3823371366792
- time of periapsis
- 2446469.9736161465
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